#2 The California Novels - This epic tale of love lost and found unfolds against the lush background of the California wine industry. After building a winery on the one-hundred-year-old vineyard that Francesca DeAngelo inherited, her husband, Jake, walked out on her, leaving his 6-year-old son and even his own mother behind. After Francesca divorced him she struggled to run the vineyard and winery successfully by herself. Things are going fairly well until Mitchell Gillette shows up, a corporate operative sent to put Francesca out of business—a man her mother-in-law then proceeds to fall in love with! To make matters worse, Francesca's ex-husband reappears, wanting to come home. The bonds of love and loyalty are sorely tested as two generations are forced to look at the mistakes they've made, the dreams they still hold, and the possibility that love might deserve a second chance. As the American Library Association writes, "Baker's sweet romance will appeal to young and...

#1 The Chesapeake Novels - A lot can happen in sixteen years, but falling out of love isn't one of them!  Pride has always kept a tight rein on Libba Delacourt, the pride that drove her away from Russ Hennessey and into the arms of a traveling actor, and the same pride that has kept her away from her home and family in Maryland for years. It's not until she receives word her mother is ill that Libba finally swallows that pride, quits her job as a genetic biologist, packs up her sixteen-year-old daughter, Chloe, and heads back east. The moment she takes her first breath of the humid salty air of the Chesapeake Bay, Libba knows how desperately she has missed living her. As it turns out, Libba is not the only person to return home that long, hot summer. Russ Hennessey has also made his way back with plans to resurrect his family's fishing business - plans that collapse when an unseen menace sabotages his ambitions. After Libba and Russ are thrown together once again, they discover...

Bailey Jones has always been a misfit in a town that sets a lot of store on family lineage, old money and homes that overlook the Chesapeake. As he makes plans to leave Marshy Hope Creek for good, a couple of things delay his departure. A developer unearths a long-dead homicide victim on land that was his up until a few weeks ago. And Chloe Richards is back in town.The first piece of startling news sends a shiver down the spines of four of the town's most prominent citizens. Each of them has something from their past that could connect them to this discovery—with dire consequences. And the second piece of news sends a shiver down Bailey's back—a not unpleasant experience.As the gossip mill kicks into overdrive, an air of expectation settles over the town. It will be a long, hot summer.

#1 The Ireland Novels After six years of mourning the murder of her husband, Kate Nolan is heartbroken when her sixteen-year-old son is arrested for dealing drugs. English Special-Forces Officer Neil Anderson offers her son a simple choice: he can go undercover as an informant or he can go to prison. And thus begins the descent of Kate's family into a web of treachery, duplicity, betrayal and murder that reaches back to her husband's very grave. Romantic love also becomes an area of conflict and confusion when the human heart strays from doctrine and tradition. "This provocative book is built around Baker's personal experiences of Ireland," Publisher's Weekly writes, "which lend her story a sense of immediacy and authenticity."

#1 The California Novels - Cool, gracious, international-relations attorney Whitney Benedict hasn't completely given up on marriage, but she does have a checklist of qualities for the man of her dreams: affluence, intelligence, good looks and no baggage. When she travels to California to make an offer on Gabriel Mendoza's famous Lipizzan horses for a European client she encounters a man who doesn't have anything on her list: he is divorced, near financial ruin, and, with his mother, is trying to raise two teenagers and an autistic younger daughter. When Whitney's stay at the hacienda is unexpectantly prolonged, she tries to establish some kind of order in the dysfunctional family and discovers that horses and children have a way of rearranging the best-laid plans—and the course of her heart. As the American Library Association writes, "Baker's heartwarming romance focuses on the heartbreak and joy that family brings."

Fourteen years ago the vivacious Catlin Kenneally scandalized the village of Kilcullen by running off to marry an American, Sam Claiborne. Crazy as she was about horses, Catlin should have been happily ensconced in Sam's horse breeding family if it wasn't for his adultery. Now, divorced from Sam, she's back in Ireland for a new life with the only things that matter­her children and a mare named Kentucky Gold.

Wealthy Jillian Fitzgerald and destitute Frankie Maguire grew up together in northern Ireland. The widening chasm of their class differences could not daunt their dreams of someday marrying, until fate cruelly rips them apart. Nell Fitzgerald, a tragic Irish princess from the Middle Ages, calls to the torn couple from the past and proves that neither prison bars nor the hands of time can stop the true power of love...

#2 The Ireland Novels - THE DELANEY WOMAN is a rich and romantic Irish murder mystery. When Kellie Delaney's twin brother dies under suspicious circumstances in Wales, her grief turns to shock and then rage when she learns Connor was murdered while working undercover for British Special Forces. Kellie travels to a sleepy Irish town to track down the man she believes is responsible for Connor's death and finds instead the antithesis of a killer. The more Kellie learns the more certain she becomes that Tom Whelan is not responsible, but that someone else is—-someone else who is tracking her every movement, someone who wants her silenced.